Robert Fulghum, the author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, wrote that “wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile of school.” Keep reading...

These days, social graces seem to be as fashionable as sporting a mullet. I travel around the city by public transit, and what better way to observe manners than to join the million or so Torontonians on their daily commute. Within this city, you’ll find...

He shoots, he scores!!!
Like millions of other Canadians this past Sunday, I was glued to my television set, watching the gold medal game between Canada and United States in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. One game. One chance. One winner. It was intense, with the...

Chicken wings, sausages, salami and RIBS are a few of my favorite things, which is a major offense for a vegetarian. Three years ago, I had it in my head that it would be a brilliant idea for a vegetarian to attend rib feast, which...

I have a sister and, trust me, one is enough. She is younger and taller than me. I could fill several blog entries with embarrassing stories about Annie, but knowing my sister, she would probably retaliate ten-fold. Keep reading...

When I was in junior high, I had a mean old bat for an art teacher. Let us call her Old Bat for short, in order to protect the not-so-innocent. Whenever she got angry, her voice would screech like nails on a chalkboard, and no...

Growing up, my dad had a red station wagon, and every summer we kids (sibling and cousins) would pile into the back and off we would go to the beach. It was probably an hour outside the city, but it seemed to me like it...

I hemmed and hawed over which book would be my first blog entry. It came to me as I spent 30 minutes bundling up before heading out to enjoy the first snowfall of the season. What makes it more fitting is that both the...